The Youngerman Center for Communication Disorders at SUNY Fredonia will host a stroke awareness walk on Saturday, Sept. 17 at 10 a.m. It will begin and end at the center, located in Thompson Hall on the Fredonia campus, and cover just over two miles along Central Avenue. There is no entry fee, and a lunch will be served after the event.
The walk is intended to increase community awareness, provide education on stroke prevention, and introduce services available at the Youngerman Center. Free hearing screenings coordinated by the Lions Club, as well as educational handouts and informational brochures from the center will be offered to participants and members of the community throughout the event.
The Youngerman Center was founded by Dr. Henry C. Youngerman, who saw potential in the emerging professions of Speech Language Pathology and Audiology diagnosis and rehabilitation. He realized that individuals with communicative disorders were unable to receive services at local schools and hospitals. The center became the first functioning regional center in New York State, serving five counties in Western New York.
Among the areas treated at the center are: articulation, voice, stuttering, language, auditory processing, accent reduction, hearing loss and neurological disorders such as head injury, stroke and swallowing.
Over the past 56 years, the Youngerman Center has expanded its services by developing many relationships with community and state agencies and establishing state-of-the-art instrumentation laboratories for the evaluation and treatment of communication and hearing disorders.
To learn more, or to register for the walk, contact Coordinator Julie Williams, at 716-673-4618 or Julie.Williams@fredonia.edu; or visit www.fredonia.edu/department/commdisorders.
